Copied from Twelve Tribes-ex.com, original publication date sometime after 1984 This is a place where reality wobbles like a table with one short leg. Here, some say Walt Disney characters are evil and the world is satanic. Here – in the name of God children are often beaten, denied medical care, held out of school…
Source: Who are the Twelve Tribes? A.K.A. the Twelve Tribes Commonwealth of Israel The following are some of the beliefs and practices of a group of believers in Jesus, whom they call by His Hebrew name Yahshua. This group began in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1973. They live and work together as a family, and they…
The Montreal Gazette/February 15, 1994 By Maria Tratt Judy Seymour says the two years spent searching for her 11-year-old son have been the most painful of her life. “I’m exhausted,” the Montreal woman said yesterday, one day after being reunited with Michael. “I’ve spent the last 23 months crying myself to sleep. At times I…
The Daily News (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Sherri Jackson 1993 A Berwick man was sentenced to five months in jail for ignoring a court order that allowed his former common-law wife access to their son Michael. Edward Frank Dawson, 40, a member of the Bible-based Twelve Tribes cult, seemed stunned by the sentence, handed down by…
September 1993 The state seeks to have Eugene Hunt held in contempt for failure to pay child support. The issue revolves around Hunt’s “ability to pay” and his claim that his religious beliefs as a member of the Northeast Kingdom Community Church in Island Pond deprive him of that ability. The Island Pond church alleges…
Winnipeg Sun Donna Carreiro April 4, 1993 Kris Servante is making an anguished plea to the daughter she hasn’t seen in 10 years. “If you’ve read this, Karen, we want you to come and see us,” Servante said yesterday, from her Neepawa home. “We love you, and we will not cause you or your church…
Cops wait for fugitive Source: The Winnipeg sun-1993 The Winnipeg Sun, Friday, April 2, 1993 By Donna Carreiro – Sun Staff Writer Three members of a controversial religious cult which moved into Winnipeg this week are wanted across North America on child abduction charges, The Sun has learned. And police suspect at least one of…
Winnipeg Sun/April 1, 1993 By Donna Carreiro A controversial religious cult alleged to be involved in systematic abuse arrived in Winnipeg to set up a chapter yesterday. The first two members of the Northeast Kingdom community church [now known as Twelve Tribes] began moving into a North end home yesterday, said Gord Gillespie, Manitoba Cult…
The Chronicle March 23, 1983 Juan Mattatall, a defector from the Northeast Kingdom Community Church of Island Pond [now known as “Twelve Tribes] who is trying to get his own three year old daughter back from Europe in the custody of cult leader Eugene Spriggs, has reportedly helped bring another defector’s child home from Spain….
The Boston Globe Magazine Sally Johnson March 12, 1993 Ten years ago, Jeanie Swantko left her job as a Vermont public defender to join Island Pond’s radical community “The Twelve Tribes.” Today, she uses her legal skills to champion for the church against its critics. Jeanie Swantko was asleep in an upstairs room in a…